II Kharkiv International Legal Forum
The main legal event of the year
25 – 28 September, 2018
The specific focus of this year is legal developments in the era of the digital economy. The four panel discussions will include recognized researchers, based in the US, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and other countries, Judges of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts of Ukraine, representatives of the Delegation of the European Union in Ukraine, officers of the Observatory Missions of the OSCE and OECD and other respected institutions. The event will also include trainings, dedicated to the relevant issues of Corporate and Intellectual Property Law, a number of masterclasses on human rights and gender equality, meetings with the top-level government and judiciary representatives.
key speakers and honorary guests
Erwin Seyfried
Doctor of Law, Professor, Berlin School of Economics and Law (Germany) Professor of Organisational and Administrative Psychology at the FHVR Berlin (now Berlin School of Economics and Law – BSEL) since 1993. Head of the inter-disciplinary research centre for vocational training, the labour market and evaluation (FBAE) at the FHVR Berlin (since 1994). Responsible for […]
Vadim Triukhan
Head of the NGO “European Movement Ukraine” 1997-2011 – worked at the diplomatic service of Ukraine in Legal and Legal Directorate, the Secretariat of the State Secretary for European Integration, the Consular Department and the Department of the European Union of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and also at the Main Directorate of […]
Oesten Baller
Doctor of Law, Professor, Director of the Institute for Cooperation with Central and Eastern European Countries in Public Reform (Germany) He has been Professor of Public Law at the Berlin School of Economics and Law since 1997. Has more than fifteen years of experience in managing projects (project director and key expert), in public consultation, […]
Liliya Hrynevych
Minister of Education and Science. Ms. Liliya Hrynevych has two degrees: a biochemist-teacher and an economist manager. She is a candidate (PhD) of Pedagogical Sciences. She worked as a teacher, Deputy Director and Director of the school, Lecturer at the universities, Head of the Education and Science Department of the Kyiv City State Administration, trained at […]
Stanislav Shevchuk
Doctor of Legal Sciences, Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. He graduated from the Ukrainian Law Academy (nowadays – Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy of Ukraine) and completed postgraduate studies at this institution, where he worked as an assistant at the Department […]
Olena Kibenko
Doctor of science, judge of The Grand Chamber of Supreme Court. She was an expert at Comparative Law Centre of Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. She was also a member of the Advisory Council on corporate governance created at State Commission of Securities and Stock Market. O. Kibenko used to be a member of Scientific […]
Anton Yanchuk
Head of the National Agency of Ukraine for Finding, Tracing and Management of assets derived from Corruption and Other Crimes. Anton Yanchuk is a graduate of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, specializing in law, and received a Master of Law degree. After graduating, he became a postgraduate student at Taras Shevchenko National University […]
Virginijus Bitė
Professor and director of the Institute of Private Law at Faculty of Law at Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) (Vilnius, Lithuania). He was also the Head of the Justice Research Laboratory at MRU. He conducts research and publishes articles in the field of commercial and company law, especially on regulation of close (private) companies and liability of directors […]
Adam Lazowski
Doctor of Law, Professor of the European Union Law at Westminster University School of Law, Short-term Expert of the EU project “Association4U” (United Kingdom). Between 1999 and 2003, he lectured at the University of Warsaw. During the next two years, he worked as a senior researcher in European law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute (The […]
Kęstutis Lančinskas
Head of EU Advisory Mission Ukraine. Kęstutis Lančinskas is a graduate of the University of Vilnius with a Masters in Criminal Law and almost three decades of professional experience in policing, diplomacy and European integration. In his home country he was involved at a senior level in major reforms, including preparations for EU accession in […]
Dovilė Gailiūtė – Janušonė
Аssociate professor at the Institute of International and EU Law at Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), where she currently teaches the courses on Public International Law and International Protection of Human Rights. Dovile completed her PhD on the right to housing and continues her research on various aspects of human rights. She is a co-author of […]
Beata Faracik
Co-founder and President of the Board of the Polish Institute for Human Rights and Business. Leading Polish expert specialized in Human Rights & Business and Corporate Social Responsibility with over 15 years of professional experience and experience of working in public, private and NGO sectors in various countries, including: Ministry of Justice (Poland), Ministry of […]
Alexander Vinnikov
Head of NATO Representation to Ukraine He began his career as a researcher in international relations at Oxford University, the Geneva Center for Security Policy and the Government School after Kennedy of Harvard University. He worked in the OSCE, in particular as Senior Political Advisor to the High Commissioner for National Minorities. He was a […]
Hans-Heiner Kühne
Professor of Criminal Law, European and International Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, and Criminology at the University of Trier, Germany. Professor Kühne had participated in joint projects with the Japanese Ministry of Justice and the German Federal Criminal Police Office, concentrating especially on organized crime and corruption. He currently leads his expertise to the Federal Criminal Police […]
Toma Birmontienė
Professor, Head of the Lithuanian Center for Human Rights (1995-2004), judge of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania (2005-2014), Head of the Baltic-Ukrainian Center for Research and Innovation
Toma Birmontienė
Professor, Head of the Lithuanian Center for Human Rights (1995-2004), judge of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania (2005-2014), Head of the Baltic-Ukrainian Center for Research and Innovation
Program for Public Advocacy
student program
- Open lecture "Constitutional Law and the Challenges of the XXI Century"
- We invite you to take part in the presentation of the training course for law students “Business and Human Rights” Presentation Program Description of the course: main topics, purpose of the course, experience of Europe and the United States in Business and Human Rights teaching Olena Uvarova, Head of the International Lab for Business and […]
- The lectures will highlight the issues of how feasible it is for professional criminals to circumvent the modern anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism-financing tools. The efficient methods to counter laundering money and finance terrorism have been developed based on fifty informal interviews with presumed white collar criminals and their advisers and semi-standardized expert interviews with selected […]
- We invite you to take part in a presentation of the training course:”Gender component in legal education” Prasentation programm Presentation of course structure and teaching methods. An overview of the good practices of the world’s leading universities on gender equality issues teaching to lawyers. Olena Uvarova, Victor Smorodinsky, Olena Dashkovska, Olena Kharytonova, Yulia Razmetayeva The […]
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